[Leica] Possible M8 purchase - HELP!

[Mark Rabiner]

If you have a brand new M 240 sitting there right next to you  and you're
continuing to use your M8 you're and idiot.


On 7/15/15 5:32 PM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 11, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> The smartness or dumbness of buying a Leica M8 at this date mid 2015 would
>> depend solely on the price in which you are buying it. (at)
>> The viability of this camera as is being expressed now on the Lug is
>> surprising in that there are countless treads on how the camera which never
>> worked soon stops working altogether.
>> I would suggest that the people here on the Lug willing to part with theirs
>> to take them up on it. If the price is super low like in a couple of bucks.
>> And you are otherwise totally in the flush and willing to throw good money
>> out the window that you'd otherwise not be spending on food, shelter or a
>> camera which worked.
>> 
>> Leica fired its CEO for suggesting that a digital Leica M was possible.
>> It also said that any Leica M would be full frame.
>> It then came out with its first out M. a cropped digital M. The M8.
>> It kept Leica  lenses selling but otherwise was one of the biggest disasters
>> in camera history. Made the Edsal in comparison seem like a success.
>> Its best to keep it as a historical footnote.
> 
> My seven year old M8 continues to deliver beautiful digital files with all of
> my M lenses;
> and has been doing so for over 7 years.
> 
> Meanwhile, you continue to throw out trash about the M8, a camera you never
> shot a frame with.
> 
> And, to the best of my knowledge, your M glass collection has never been used
> to expose a digital frame.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> 
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> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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